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This is my very first video, so please be gentle with it if you would please like to take your time to graciously give me an opinion.. ^-^

After I helped Tenjou with "Roseate Nocturne", I decided that I was ready to try creating a video on my own.. ^-^ As the both of us were driving in her car one evening, I came up with the idea of setting another Utena video to Evanescence.. (This was far before Evanescence gained their level of popularity, by the way.. ^^;)

So I suggested that I would like to create a "hybrid" music video, using footage from both the Utena series and movie.. Tenjou scoffed at me and said it could not be done.. Do I sense a challenge, now?.. ^_~

The song, "Going Under" evoked a sense of sublime water imagery for me -- months before the official Evanescence video was released, as well.. So I decided to use water as a major symbol in the video, almost as a character unto itself.. At first as an agent of drowning, suffocating all sense of Self-Worth.. But then as a gentle element of nourishment and growing beyond adolescent matters..

Of course, this video focuses on Utena and Anthy's relationships to their dead princes and literally breaking free of them under their own will, finally achieving solace within themselves and with each other.. I could continue to rant on my thoughts about this concept, but I shall spare you.. ^_^

The instrumental to the opening sequence is "Tears of the Ocean" by Keiko Matsui.. and in all, it spanned the duration of over a month to complete it from ripping to encoding.. Adobe Premiere 6.5 was utilized on this project..

My endless gratitude goes to Tenjou, who helped me with making heads and tails out of the audio/visual techniques, support, and general help and inspiration.. ^^

Here is an outline of how the song is divided for each character in the storyline..

INTRODUCTION (Utena and Anthy with Dios)
Now I will tell you
What I've done for you
Fifty thousand tears i've cried
Screaming deceiving and bleeding for you
And you still won't hear me
Going under...

UTENA/TOUGA
Don't want your hand this time
I'll save myself
Maybe I'll wake up for once
Not tormented daily defeated by you
Just when I
Thought I'd reached the bottom
I'm... dying again

I'm going under
Drowning in you
I'm falling forever
I've got to break through
I'm going under

ANTHY/AKIO
Blurring and stirring the truth and the lies
So I don't know what's real and what's not
Always confusing the thoughts in my head
So i can't trust myself anymore
I'm... dying again

I'm going under
Drowning in you
I'm falling forever
I've got to break through
I'm going under

UTENA & ANTHY
So go on and scream
Scream at me, I'm so far away
I won't be broken again
I've got to breathe
I can't keep going under

I'm... dying again
I'm going under
Drowning in you
I'm falling forever
I've got to break through
I'm going under
Going under
I'm going under